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Chances are, Fisher won't have to worry about making the 482-mile trek.

A loss would install the Lions in their very own NFL Hall of Shame as the league's first team to go 0-16 in a season. They're already the first to go 0-15. A win, of course, would be better, allowing Detroit the dubious distinction of becoming the ninth franchise to finish a season 1-15.

The last team to finish the season winless was the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an expansion franchise that went 0-14.

"It's incredible that a team could go that long in the NFL without winning a game," said Tim Katanski of Ypsilanti, Mich. "I mean, Tampa Bay was an expansion team, so they kind of have an excuse."

Fisher likes their chances against the Packers and sounded surprisingly confident.

"I think we're going to shock a lot of people with a great game. I feel like we're going to win," he said. "Not to take anything away from Green Bay, but we're a great football team. I know the record doesn't show it, but I'm going to say it."

Lions coach Rod Marinelli didn't talk about the possibility of going 0-16 with his players until they lost their first 12 games.

When that happened, he told them to think about the team picture.

"He said, 'This could be the picture they send to the Hall of Fame for the first team that went 0-16,"' defensive tackle Shaun Cody recalled. "It threw me back."

Marinelli went back to the topic earlier this week, hoping to motivate his beleaguered team after it followed up two closely contested games with a 35-point loss at home to New Orleans.

"He said, 'You don't remember who won the Super Bowl 15 years ago because there's a Super Bowl winner every year. You'd remember who went 0-16 because there can be only one team that does that,"' Cody recalled. "Hopefully, we can take advantage of our last chance."

The Lions blew cold air into their practice facility this week, trying to simulate the conditions at Lambeau Field. That seemed to be the only change Marinelli made.

"It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks," Smith said with a sigh. "We've been playing for 15 weeks."

Marinelli might be a head coach for only one more game.

Team owner William Clay Ford has decided the leaders of the front office, Martin Mayhew and Tom Lewand, will be back in some capacity, but he hasn't revealed his plans for the coaching staff.

Marinelli, though, insisted he hasn't spent time pondering his future in Detroit.

"Everything is just Green Bay right now," he said. "If you start worrying about or thinking about (that), it's unfair to your players."